Dominick Tavella

Dominick Tavella is an American sound engineer .

Life

Tavella began his career as a sound engineer in the early 1980s and has since been involved in well over 100 film projects. In addition to feature films, he has worked on numerous documentaries and concert films in which he remixed the original recordings. These include appearances by Jimi Hendrix , the Beatles and Otis Redding . In 2003 he and Michael Minkler and David Lee received the Oscar in the Best Sound category for Chicago . In the same year he also received the BAFTA Film Award in the Best Sound category . In 2011 he was nominated again for the BAFTA Film Award for Black Swan , but this time could not win the award. For his work on television productions, he was nominated three times for the Primetime Emmy between 2001 and 2010 , but the award was denied to him.

Filmography (selection)

• 1986 parting seconds (Parting Glances)
• 1991: Barton Fink
• 1991: Night on Earth
• 1992: Far and Away (Far and Away)
• 1993: Gilbert Grape - Somewhere in Iowa (What's Eating Gilbert Grape)
• 1995: 12 Monkeys (Twelve Monkeys)
• 1997: Chasing Amy
• 1997: Princess Mononoke (も の の け 姫)
• 1999: God's Work & Devil's Contribution (The Cider House Rules)
• 2000: Chocolat - A small bite is enough (Chocolat)
• 2001: The Royal Tenenbaums (The Royal Tenenbaums)
• 2002: Chicago
• 2006: Cold Blood - In the footsteps of Truman Capote (Infamous)
• 2007: Deadly Decision - Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (Before the Devil Knows You're Dead)
• 2008: Mamma Mia!
• 2008: The Wrestler - Fame, Love, Pain (The Wrestler)
• 2008: Maybe, maybe not (Definitely, Maybe)
• 2009: Amelia
• 2010: Black Swan
• 2013: The Wolf of Wall Street
• 2014: Noah

Awards (selection)

• 2003 : Oscar for Best Sound for Chicago
• 2003: BAFTA Film Award for Best Sound for Chicago
• 2011: BAFTA Film Award nomination in the Best Sound category for Black Swan

Web links

• Dominick Tavella in the Internet Movie Database (English)